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Handai-Asahi Nakanoshima Juku: Amusing Japanese Linguistics -- the World of Adjectives

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Handai-Asahi Nakanoshima Juku: Amusing Japanese Linguistics -- the World of Adjectives

2014-2-21
(Fri)
1:30 p.m.
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3:00 p.m.

The Handai-Asahi Nakanoshima Juku offers courses produced and
sponsored by Osaka University and Asahi Culture Center. The Handai-Asahi
Nakanoshima Juku was established at the time [Osaka University's]
Nakanoshima Center was built in 2004.

These courses share results of research conducted at Osaka University
with the general public in an easy-to-understand format. In these
lectures, leading lecturers give
presentations on topics in culture, art, history, science,
technology, health care, as well as seasonal and current topics.

Date & Time: Friday, February 21, 1:30 ~ 3:00 p.m.

Tuition: ¥1,575

Lecturer: KOYANO Tetsuo, Professor, Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University

It is said that in Japanese the number of adjectives is less than that of nouns or verbs. In order to make up that deficit, a lot of quasi-adjectives have been created. What role do adjectives and quasi-adjectives play in Japanese language? How has Japanese coped with the deficit? This class will take a look at adjectives and quasi-adjectives in terms of the meaning and characteristics of the meanings of adjectives and quasi-adjectives by comparing them with verbs that express action and change.